How do I get Vim to build in the OBS for Fedora 22 and 23 too?

English Open Build Service (OBS)
1

Hi,

I have a vim package in the OBS that is building fine on openSUSE 13.2, 42.1 and Tumbleweed but failing to build on Fedora. I have fixed the dependency issues I could myself identify (e.g., there was once a Perl issue which I fixed by adding a few dependencies from The Fedora Project spec for Vim). But now I keep getting the error message:


  239s] cp vim /usr/bin
  239s] cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/bin/vim': Permission denied
  239s] Makefile:2093: recipe for target 'installvimbin' failed
  239s] make[1]: *** [installvimbin] Error 1
  239s] make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/vim-7.4.1320/src'
  239s] Makefile:36: recipe for target 'install' failed
  239s] make: *** [install] Error 2
  239s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PWRtRf (%install)
  239s] 
  239s] 
  239s] RPM build errors:
  239s]     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PWRtRf (%install)
  239s] 
  239s] cloud114 failed "build vim.spec" at Mon Feb 15 05:08:59 UTC 2016.
  239s] 
  239s] ### WATCHDOG MARKER START ###
  240s] Powering off.
  240s]   215.295831] reboot: Power down
  242s] ### WATCHDOG MARKER END ###
  242s] 
  242s] cloud114 failed "build vim.spec" at Mon Feb 15 05:09:02 UTC 2016.
  242s]

and I haven’t the foggiest why. Here is my spec file: http://paste2.org/sIzCE6hG.

Thanks for your time,
Brenton

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On Mon 15 Feb 2016 05:16:01 AM CST, fusion809 wrote:

Hi,

I have a ‘vim package’
(Welcome - openSUSE Build Service) in the OBS
that is building fine on openSUSE 13.2, 42.1 and Tumbleweed but failing
to build on Fedora. I have fixed the dependency issues I could myself
identify (e.g., there was once a Perl issue which I fixed by adding a
few dependencies from ‘The Fedora Project spec for Vim’
(https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/vim/sources/spec/)). But now I
keep getting the error message:

Code:

239s] cp vim /usr/bin
239s] cp: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/bin/vim’: Permission
denied 239s] Makefile:2093: recipe for target ‘installvimbin’ failed
239s] make[1]: *** [installvimbin] Error 1
239s] make[1]: Leaving directory
‘/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/vim-7.4.1320/src’ 239s] Makefile:36:
recipe for target ‘install’ failed 239s] make: *** [install] Error 2
239s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PWRtRf
(%install) 239s]
239s]
239s] RPM build errors:
239s] Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PWRtRf (%install)
239s]
239s] cloud114 failed “build vim.spec” at Mon Feb 15 05:08:59 UTC
2016. 239s]
239s] ### WATCHDOG MARKER START ###
240s] Powering off.
240s] 215.295831] reboot: Power down
242s] ### WATCHDOG MARKER END ###
242s]
242s] cloud114 failed “build vim.spec” at Mon Feb 15 05:09:02 UTC
2016. 242s]

and I haven’t the foggiest why. Here is my spec file:
Paste2.org - Viewing Paste sIzCE6hG.

Thanks for your time,
Brenton

Hi
You always need to work in the %{buildroot} If creating symlinks I
always pushd and popd into the relevant directories.

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Ah, sorry but I’m still confused. I wouldn’t suppose you could show me what sort of changes you think would fix this spec file? Do you mean that these lines:


install -D -m 0755 vim %{buildroot}/bin/vim


# compat symlinks
ln -s -f /bin/vim   %{buildroot}/bin/vi
ln -s -f /bin/vim   %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/vim
ln -s -f /bin/vim   %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/vi
ln -s -f vim        %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/edit
ln -s -f /bin/vim   %{buildroot}/bin/ex


# man pages
ln -s -f vim.1.gz %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/vi.1.gz
ln -s -f vim.1.gz %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/ex.1.gz

should be preceded by:


pushd %{buildroot}

and followed by:


popd

?

4

Well, it looks like %makeinstall is different on openSUSE and Fedora. Your package fails in Makefile, and apparently make invocation on Fedora lacks information about destination prefix. To quote vim Makefile:

#	If you install Vim, not to install for real but to prepare a package
#	or RPM, set DESTDIR to the root of the tree.
5

Thanks, so I amended the

%makeinstall STRIP=:

line to

%if 0%{?suse_version}
%makeinstall STRIP=:
%else
%makeinstall STRIP=: DESTDIR=%{buildroot}/usr
%endif

it’s just I am uncertain as to my DESTDIR assignment, should it be %{buildroot}/usr or %{buildroot}?

6

I pushed this change (including the DESTDIR=%{buildroot}/usr) to the OBS and now it is returning the error:


  181s] make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/vim-7.4.1320/src'
  181s] + install -d -m 0755 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/vim-7.4.1320-30.1.x86_64/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
  181s] + install -d -m 0755 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/vim-7.4.1320-30.1.x86_64/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/
  181s] + install -m 0644 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/SOURCES/gvim.png /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/vim-7.4.1320-30.1.x86_64/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/gvim.png
  181s] + mv /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/vim-7.4.1320-30.1.x86_64/usr/bin/vim /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/vim-7.4.1320-30.1.x86_64/usr/bin/gvim
  181s] mv: cannot stat '/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/vim-7.4.1320-30.1.x86_64/usr/bin/vim': No such file or directory
  181s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.OCIF9b (%install)
  181s] 
  181s] 
  181s] RPM build errors:
  181s]     Macro expanded in comment on line 459: # THIS BREAKS THE BUILD: %{_datadir}/vim/current/tools/missing-vim-client
  181s] 
  181s]     Macro expanded in comment on line 479: #%{_datadir}/vim/%{VIM_SUBDIR}/tools/blink.c
  181s] 
  181s]     Macro expanded in comment on line 481: #%{_datadir}/vim/%{VIM_SUBDIR}/tools/ccfilter.c
  181s] 
  181s]     Macro expanded in comment on line 499: #%{_datadir}/vim/%{VIM_SUBDIR}/tools/xcmdsrv_client.c
  181s] 
  181s]     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.OCIF9b (%install)
  181s] 
  181s] lamb17 failed "build vim.spec" at Mon Feb 15 08:51:24 UTC 2016.
  181s] 
  181s] ### WATCHDOG MARKER START ###
  182s] Powering off.
  182s]   167.199806] reboot: Power down
  182s] ### WATCHDOG MARKER END ###
  182s] 
  182s] lamb17 failed "build vim.spec" at Mon Feb 15 08:51:26 UTC 2016.
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This should be %{buildroot} - i.e. virtual root of destination filesystem. You could also check what successful build on openSUSE does in this case (for some reason I cannot download full logs via web interface) or simply “rpm --eval %makeinstall” on openSUSE.

8

@arvidjaar thanks a million! I managed to get the OBS to successfully build the packages for F22 an F23 without issue.